About Vanessa Hua Books
Vanessa Hua is the author of the national bestselling novels A River of Stars and Forbidden City, as well as the story collection Deceit and Other Possibilities, a New York Times Editors' Pick. A National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, she has also received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and a Steinbeck Fellowship, as well as awards from the de Groot Foundation, Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association. She was a finalist for the California Book Award, Northern California Book Award, and New American Voices Award. A former longtime columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, her award-winning work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic. She teaches at the Warren Wilson MFA Program and elsewhere. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.
